Engaging with Strangers

Engaging with StrangersThe civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998 2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with strangers across many realms of lifepre colonial warfare, Christian conversion, logging and conservation, even post conflict state building. She describes startling reversals in which strangers become attached to local

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people must step up when they are needed

this book covers the entire period from the Reformation to the Civil War

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‘Altered Destinations’ addresses the complex interrelations of state

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Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side engages in spatially informed readings of twentieth-century Jewish American and African American literature

This innovative work of comparative philosophy not only presents a systematic and comprehensive interpretation of Wang's thought but also shows its relevance to contemporary discussions in the philosophy of ecology

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